[swatcoder]

It’s a fine idea, but ignores the importance of typesetting and design for print.

I’m sure plenty of people would want something like this regardless, but the product would usually look much less polished than people expect to see in printed and bound materials and that would reflect on the authors/editors.

Authors and editors who take pride in the presentation of their work might be a hard sell.

[323]

Sounds like a job for a design & typesetting DALL-E AI.

BTW, Kindle is pretty successful, and pretty much all books use a standard design template, so the great importance of typesetting & design is questionable.

[nitrogen]

"Pretty successful" is a poor proxy for "satisfies condition X." Kindle is known to be bad for anything where the spatial layout matters.

[greggsy]

My other half is an editor and graphic designer and constantly points out bad design. Many CMS platforms do this out if the box to allow cross platform compatibility (at various degrees of success), but you could just define some core defaults to ensure compatibility.

[Rodeoclash]

Slightly tongue in cheek, but perhaps you could use ML to automatically typeset it. I've seen some ML that would convert a design to HTML and I'd imagine this isn't too far removed from that.